Re: Commit ID in exported Tar Ball

On Thursday 17 May 2007, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:

On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 06:57:22PM +0200, Johan Herland wrote:

quoted

Of course, it all depends on whether the $Id$ conversion is triggered by 
git-archive...

Another possibility might be to add a commandline switch to git-archive
so you can decide whether the commit id should be added as a header to
the tar file (which it already supports) or as a ordinary file (which
should be reasonable trivial to implement). The question if whether
it would be worth to add that feature. Don't know if there are many
other users out there that need it.

Although this efficiently solves Michael's problem, I still think the ideal 
solution would be for git-archive to do the same conversions/filters as a 
regular checkout would. Otherwise, we'll easily get into situations where 
a git-archive tree is different enough from a "regular" working tree to 
cause annoying differences in behaviour.


Have fun!

...Johan

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